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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, attributed to. The Life and Death of Thomas, Lord Cromwell [with Some Account of the Life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespeare . . . by Mr. Rowe]. [24], 45, [3] pages, including engraved frontispiece, portrait of Shakespeare, and final blank. 12mo, 161x100 mm, modern drab wrappers; contents toned with some light foxing and soiling. London: J. Tonson, 1734
From the edition of the complete genuine and spurious Shakespeare plays published by Jacob Tonson in competition with Robert Walker. The only separate editions of this play before Tonson and Walker's were the quartos of 1602 and 1613. Nicholas Rowe's biographical sketch, first published in his 1709 edition of the plays, was the first attempt at a life of Shakespeare. Jaggard, page 470.
